by Steve Williams | Jan 30, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The Tennessee men’s basketball team finally landed a big one when the Vols held off No. 4 ranked Kentucky 82-80 last week. And while this young but surprising UT squad had come up on the short end of the stick in five previous outings against...
by Steve Williams | Jan 23, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The once-great Tennessee women’s basketball program has been sinking the past season and a half. Every now and then we hear a gurgle. But last week she made a splash. The 71-69 come-from-behind win over No. 6 ranked Notre Dame at fired up...
by Steve Williams | Jan 16, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Clemson and Alabama literally put the 2016 college football season to bed last Monday night. Actually it was Tuesday morning, a few minutes past midnight, when Deshaun Watson threw the game-winning touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow with only one...
by Steve Williams | Jan 9, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Tennessee’s 38-24 win over Nebraska in the Music City Bowl amounted to putting a Band-Aid over its scratched up 2016 football season. It hid a little bit of the Vanderbilt beating, but the overall pain resulting from the scarred and injury-riddled...
by Steve Williams | Jan 3, 2017 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams College football would eventually suffer if more and more high-profile players do like LSU’s Leonard Fournette and Stanford’s Christian McCaffery did and skip their bowl games to prepare for the NFL draft. This would particularly be true if big-name...
by Steve Williams | Dec 27, 2016 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams The news that George Quarles was leaving Maryville High for Furman University was surprising but understandable. Quarles could have made the move to the college ranks years ago had he chose to do so. This time the opportunity and situation afforded...
